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Panopticon Central, May 8, 2008
Random musing for the day: I was thinking about reserved words in programming languages and whether they're really necessary at a lexical level. As you know, most programming languages define in their...
Panopticon Central, May 5, 2008
WARNING: This is a speculative post. Caveat emptor. Well, I appear to be on a rhythm of about once a month posts, which seems OK for the moment. Moving on to another "future" topic, one of the most...
The Code Project Latest Articles, May 5, 2008
Date Format function for vbScript / ASP...
Visual ActiveKent Sharkey .NET SE 3.11 : ASP.NET, April 26, 2008
The bits move on, and only the code keeps changing.
My complaints in the last post are no longer valid. As of the 4/16 release of the MVC framework, VB no longer has that weird behaviour. Now, all ac...
The Visual Basic Team, April 25, 2008
An identity transform in XSLT does just what the name implies: replace the identity of an element or attribute with a new identity. Identity transforms are especially critical when dealing with XML ma...
Fabrice's weblog, April 24, 2008
C# 3.0 and VB.NET 9.0 introduced implicit typing. When you use anonymous types, it's required. The rest of the time, it's mostly a judgment call to decide whether to use implicitly-typed local variabl...
Shaun Walker, April 14, 2008
One of the things I have been doing lately with my projects like the DotNetNuke CodeEndeavors AJAX templates along with the ClientAPI and WebControls is to use a custom MSBuild script to package the c...
The Visual Basic Team, April 14, 2008
On Wednesday we released onto the VB Developer Center the second part of Maurice de Beijer's article on Windows Workflow. In this second article about developing custom Workflow Activities, Maurice ta...
RegexLib.com - Recent Patterns, April 4, 2008
Filters out VB.NET and VB6.0 comments....
Jason N. Gaylords Blog, April 1, 2008
I've probably done this at least a dozen times, but when you don't do something everyday, you tend to forget. I created a custom control that I wanted to place into a control collection. So, I created...
Jason N. Gaylords Blog, April 1, 2008
I've probably done this at least a dozen times, but when you don't do something everyday, you tend to forget. I created a custom control that I wanted to place into a control collection. So, I created...
mikes web log, April 1, 2008
Twice today I've gotten requests via the blog to convert code in old (old, old) blog entries -- one request to convert VB to C#, another request for C# to VB. Weird, huh? Two requests, both today.Dunn...
Jason N. Gaylords Blog, April 1, 2008
I've probably done this at least a dozen times, but when you don't do something everyday, you tend to forget. I created a custom control that I wanted to place into a control collection. So, I created...
The Visual Basic Team, March 31, 2008
All - I'm about to go on for my LINQ Deep Dive and Tips &Tricks session at VSLive in San Francisco. I posted all demos & slides here: https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Release/ProjectReleases.a...
Corporate Coder, March 31, 2008
Hey folks. A quick technical post for anyone starting to implement Project 2007 Server from 2003. Your enterprise global cannot be easily moved between environments. This mainly means any ...
Vault of Thoughts, March 29, 2008
I've never liked VB.NET. Probably because I was (un)fortunate enough to work with
VB6 for 2 years, even though .NET and C# were already there. Nevertheless I'm aware
that VB.NET tends to offer some v...
Federal Developer Weblog, March 27, 2008
If you haven't yet downloaded this nifty MSDN tool, you should. "The Visual Basic Snippet Editor is a Windows Forms application with UI for creating, editing, testing VB code snippets. You c...
K. Scott Allen, March 26, 2008
Given this simple Employee class:
public class Employee
{
public int ID { get; set; }
public string Name { get; set; }
}
How ...
DevX: .NET Feed, March 24, 2008
Will VB's new LINQ to XML prowess finally gain it the community respect accorded to other mainstream languages?...
DevX: Latest XML Articles, March 24, 2008
Will VB's new LINQ to XML prowess finally gain it the community respect accorded to other mainstream languages?...
The Visual Basic Team, March 24, 2008
Last week I had the privilege of speaking in Lisbon, Portugal & Birmingham, England at launch events for Visual Studio 2008. There seemed to be a lot of buzz and excitement in the air at both even...
The Visual Basic Team, March 24, 2008
If you missed it, last week 48 new How Do I videos (Forms over data, Windows development, Office development and Security) were added to the Visual Basic Developer Center in addition to adding ne...
The Visual Basic Team, March 24, 2008
I recently ran into an interesting threading problem that I wanted to share, so that perhaps I can save some people from the same confusion I had.
I started with a C# application someone else h...
Granville Barnett, March 21, 2008
Just a quickie and a dead simple example, CPUSS is really easy to use with any managed language including C++/CLI, VB.NET and F# but I chose F# to create a real easy program to show the synergy betwee...
DevX: .NET Feed, March 18, 2008
The release of Visual Studio 2008 updates Visual Basic to version 9.0, with several key language enhancements and LINQ support. Part Two of this series will walk you through VB 9's new LINQ support fe...
DevX: .NET Feed, March 17, 2008
If you want autocomplete in VB, you've got to do it yourself and this tip shows you how....
The Visual Basic Team, March 15, 2008
You probably didn’t notice it, but we made some important and beneficial changes to the Support Statement for Visual Basic 6.0 on Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 just a few weeks ago, and ...
The Visual Basic Team, March 15, 2008
Do you use code snippets (introduced in VB 2005)? If you do, then you've probably noticed the green highlighting that stays around for the lifetime of the file. We've heard *a lot* of feedback that on...
The Visual Basic Team, March 14, 2008
Jared here again. I very excited to announce we recently released a tool I've been working on to MSDN that will greatly help with using PInvoke in managed code. The tool is called the "P...
Joe On .NET, March 13, 2008
AJAX opens many interesting new doors in terms of how we can tailor the user experience to the customers needs and how we can display content based on any number of state context. This sometimes ...
DevX: .NET Feed, March 12, 2008
Find out how to develop VB.NET applications on Vista using .NET 3.0. Chapter 24, "Printing," covers a topic that nearly every developer needs, but few understand well....
The Visual Basic Team, March 5, 2008
I apologize right away that it's been a while since I've blogged about the interop forms toolkit although I've been doing my best to keep up with issues and questions on the i...
Poupous blog, March 5, 2008
It's released. Now with new assembly names, version and public keys ;-)most of the stuffthe lone vb stuff...
Fabrice's weblog, March 5, 2008
A frequent question we get about our LINQ book is whether it's been written for C# developers only. If you think so, you're making a mistake.We cover both C# and VB.NET in the book. This is one big di...
The Visual Basic Team, March 5, 2008
Today I posted a Channel 9 interview with Todd Apley, Senior Test Lead on the VB Team, where he shows us a variety of tips and tricks with using the Interop Forms Toolkit on Visual Studio 20...
K. Scott Allen, March 5, 2008
Some say we are living in the information age, but I say this is the advertisement age. Marketers strive to cover every square inch of the planet and outer atmosphere with slogans and promotions. We ...
DevX: .NET Feed, March 4, 2008
The release of Visual Studio 2008 updates Visual Basic to version 9.0, with several key language enhancements and LINQ support. Part one of this series will walk you through using nullable types, type...
The Code Project Latest Articles, March 4, 2008
AdHawkMailer an ASP.NET Component for Sending Email in VB.NET...
Clarity Blogs: ASP.NET, February 29, 2008
Here is a major gotcha that you will encounter when you try to configure your product with deferred actions using configurable properties during the installation. Deferred actions do NOT have acc...
The Code Project Latest Articles, February 28, 2008
Similiar function to GOTO in VBScript...
Julia Lerman Blog - Dont Be Iffy..., February 27, 2008
While I will always promote the value of being able to read C# and mentally convert
it to VBand being able to read VB and mentally convert it to C# is a skill
I think all VB and C# developers should ...
kbAlertz.com :: Visual Studio 2005, February 22, 2008
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Federal Developer Weblog, February 20, 2008
The Microsoft Visual Basic Team has released an updated version of the Visual Basic Power Pack, and I (as a C# Developer) am jealous! Here's an Overview of what's in the Power Pack: The new Data...
Panopticon Central, February 20, 2008
WARNING: This is a speculative post. Caveat emptor. Several weeks ago, I gave a presentation entitled Bringing Scripting (Back) to Visual Basic at the Lang .NET 2008 conference. A video of the present...
FTPOnline ASP.NET Channel, February 20, 2008
Microsoft this week posted several new downloads for developers working with Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Basic....
The Code Project Latest Articles, February 20, 2008
A customizable cloud generator written in VB.NET...
The Visual Basic Team, February 19, 2008
Yesterday on the Visual Basic Developer Center we released a new article by VB MVP, Maurice DeBeijer on getting started with Windows Workflow called Windows Workflow 101. This is the first in a series...
The Visual Basic Team, February 18, 2008
Check it out, the team just released a new version of the Visual Basic Power Packs which now includes a Data Repeater control. Power Packs are free Add-Ins, Controls, Componen...
The Code Project Latest Articles, February 17, 2008
Example of a proper singleton collection in visual basic .net....
The Code Project Latest Articles, February 15, 2008
A customizable cloud generator written in VB.NET...